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Although making carpets in Donegal is an ancient tradition, the company Donegal Carpets is but 100 odd years old and was founded in 1898 by Scottish textile manufacturer Alexander Morton. Before establishing Donegal Carpets, Morton had first established a carpet crafting house on the west coast of Ireland and put to practice the techniques of the Donegal people who had been working with wool for generations. The first example of a Donegal carpet with Celtic designs was that carried out for the Department of Agriculture and Technical Instruction for their offices at the Cork Exhibition in 1902. There is another earlier example, a small Celtic-ornamented altar carpet, a Morton's gift to the St Eunan's Cathedral, Letterkenny County ,Donegal, which was opened in June 1901.The altar carpet was designed by Signor Oreste Amici, a roman painter, who carried out the Celtic ornamental painting in the St Columba Chapel in 1900. The Mortons sold the company to a consortium called Donegal Carpets Ltd. in 1957. There were four manufacturing houses at one time in County Donegal but three of the four facilities closed during The Great Depression and in 1987 the last facility closed. Local Donegal people petitioned the government to help re-open them in 1997 and in 1999 they were making carpets again for places such as Áras an Uachtaráin, Dublin Castle and the University of Notre Dame. [edit]

DannyM8 Morning Danny! So do you think this is Donegal Carpets? And if so, where was it?

great document!

National Library of Ireland on The Commons Its Here

DannyM8 Excellent, thank you. Now added to map...

The Wild Flower was owned by Lord Muskerry of Springfield Castle, Drumcolliher. Co.Limerick from 1883 until latest 1910.

According to his peerage entry, Hamilton Matthew Tilson FitzMaurice Deane-Morgan, 4th Baron Muskerry had 5 kids, but only one daughter, Flora, born in 1882. Given her apparent age, it's probably the mid 1880s.

Here are Hamilton and Flora (aged 18) in the 1901 census.

Congratulation for your beautiful Album.

A closer photo and two of the Wild Flower - catalogue.nli.ie/Record/vtls000589919 catalogue.nli.ie/Record/vtls000589920 catalogue.nli.ie/Record/vtls000589921 Via Trove - "... Lord Muskerry possesses one of those encumbered estates which leaves a wretched margin of income to the nominal owners. Lady Muskerry has latterly materially helped to increase the income by engaging in the egg and fowl trade. She owns over three thousand hens, and has at least an acre of the demesne wired in for them." trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/115449830 (1887) "... It was in a debate in the House of Lords in September, 1893, when the little Lord Muskerry was giving himself airs as a representative peer. " Lord Muskerry," said Lord Rosebery, " knows all about Ireland, but what does Ireland know about Lord Muskerry ?" trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/170313114 (1896)

What a poseur!? ;)

Lucan Station Signal Box on old OSI map maps.osi.ie/publicviewer/#V1,703110,732793,7,9 The track diagram shows the next section, Clondalkin. No trace of Lucan Station on Google maps There might not have been mains electricity in the isolated signal box, only the electric telegraph instruments.

blackpoolbeach Thank you, now properly Flickr Mapped.

Must be casual Friday, the collar is undone with no tie!

Yes very little left of Lucan South, apart from one of the platform walls on the Down side. Through the window you can see the Baldonnell Siding, laid in 1918 to connect with a narrow gauge line to the nearby aerodrome during its construction. The siding remained long after, and was only removed when the cabin was closed and demolished in 1973.

Well, unless they spelt themselves differently, they weren't there in 1901. The only rural Conaghers are in Ballyshiel, Co. Down. It's not close enough to the border that you'd mistake it for Antrim.

There's no end of McKinleys, mind you.

derangedlemur Another version of this photograph gives "Conagher's farm, Co. Antrim Home of the McKinley's". Did they just rent from Conagher? There's a Conagher Bridge in Dervock...

There's several Ulster buildings of american significance preserved at Cultra but not this one. www.nmni.com/uafp/Collections/Buildings/Ulster-Buildings

There is an exterior in the archive, described as Conagher's Farm, Giant's Causeway, Co. Antrim